Ron Lieber

Ron Lieber is the “Your Money” columnist for The New York Times. "The Opposite of Spoiled," his guide to teaching kids about money and values, will be published by Harper Collins in February, 2015.

Before coming to The Times, Ron helped develop the personal finance Web site FiLife and wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Fortune. He’s the author or co-author of three books, including The New York Times bestseller “Taking Time Off,” which encouraged young adults to take a year off between high school and college or sometime during their undergraduate years. His first story in The Times was an op-ed about sexual assault and campus judicial systems that appeared during his junior year at Amherst.

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Do you really need a branch nearby? Would stopping and restarting your automatic payments with a new bank be that inconvenient? Aren’t more interest and lower fees worth it over time? Ron Lieber, the Your Money columnist, explains.